school board – Verba Sparsa

What we say matters

If we don’t teach our young people how to use speech to build up rather than tear down, we aren’t going to have a country anymore.

OK, you want to know why I’m running for school board? I’m not lacking things to do with my time. I am not bored. My day job in academic book publishing is endlessly fascinating and demanding, and numerous prospective authors (I am chagrined to admit) could tell you that all my evenings and weekends couldContinue reading “Defend institutions”

Acquiescence is complicity; love requires truthtelling

Until we have agreed that we will speak truthfully and respectfully to and about each other, and that we will not choose as our representatives people who are unable to do either, we cannot hope for progress on anything else.

JAMES ERNEST FOR CALEDONIA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

James Ernest for Caledonia Community Schools: A Platform. I am a candidate for school board trustee. Vote for me in November.

Story problems

Once you start down the road of insisting that the only permissible stories are ones that align with your sense of how the world ought to be, you are on the road to ideological indoctrination.